The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 175DINGOES. AND. OTHER. PETS. FRIENDS OF MINE recently moved to a house
on a five-acre suburban lot to indulge their passion for raising horses. I was
working on the horsemeat chapter for this book when they invited me to a party.

Página 186The dingo (Canis antar- ticus) is a semiwild species of dog that has intrigued me
ever since Robert Lowie cited it as another one of his prime examples of "
capricious irrationality." In Lowie's words: "The Australian kept his dog, the dingo,
...

Página 189At mealtime, adult dingoes had to keep their distance, and many a hapless dingo
was probably forced to subsist almost entirely on human feces. Since dingoes
sooner or later departed from human company, unlike fully domesticated dogs,
the ...

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Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.